Tag: Islamabad

Pakistan is hosting a two-day heads of government meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) starting today amid heightened security concerns following last week's suicide bombing attack against Chinese workers. Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrived in Islamabad yesterday and was met at the ...

Pakistan authorities were preparing on Sunday to shut down the capital ahead of a Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, overshadowed by recent militant violence and political unrest. The Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, and Chinese Premier Li ...

Pakistan’s hosting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Council of Heads of Government meeting on October 15 and 16 is happening as the country is scrambling to contain the fallout of a bombing attack on a group of Chinese engineers on Sunday. ...

The Chinese Foreign Ministry strongly condemned a wave of separatist violence that swept across the northwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan all week, where at least 70 people have been killed in the violence. The region is the center of China's massive ...

By Shrouq TARIQ Pakistan ramped up security guarding Chinese engineers building Beijing-linked projects in the nation's northwest, an official said Wednesday, a day after five workers were killed in a suicide bombing. Beijing is Islamabad's ...

The Chinese government called on Pakistan to launch an investigation and "severely punish" the culprits behind Tuesday's terrorist attack that killed five Chinese nationals and their local driver in the northern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province. The six victims were in a convoy on their way ...

China and Pakistan signed a raft of new agreements aimed at moving forward their China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a key Belt and Road Initiative project. China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif and its Minister for Planning and Development, Ahsan Iqbal, signed six deals and ...

A revealing war of words has erupted between Pakistan’s current ruling party and its predecessor touching on China’s political influence. On the ten-year anniversary of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a massive Belt and Road Initiative project incorporating transport logistics, industrial zones and ...

Pakistan's new Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari spent the weekend meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.  This was Bilawal's first official overseas visit since the new Pakistani government came to power last month, a sign of how ...